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Not only will it make you throw up BUT it will ALSO upset the normal sodium and potassium levels in your body. Sodium with the chemical symbol of Na and potassium with the symbol of K+ maintains an inverse relationship: when one is up the other goes down. What this means when you overuse salt is that potassium K+ goes down and sodium Na goes up.
Potassium maintains an optimum healthy range so that it can control and contribute to major body functions. One of its most important functions is to help the heart to beat properly and to regulate blood pressure. Low potassium can also affect the nerves, especially nerves that innervate (send impulses to) the heart.
Hypokalemia, the medical name for low (hypo) potassium (kalemia) is present in 1 out of 5 patients who are hospitalized (for any reason). But, many of these patients are ones who binge and purge.
Symptoms
Most patients have more than one symptom involving the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, kidneys, muscles, heart, and nerves. The primary symptoms include:
- Weakness, tiredness, or cramping in arm or leg muscles, sometimes severe enough to cause inability to move arms or legs due to weakness (much like a paralysis)
- Tingling or numbness
- Nausea or vomiting
- Abdominal cramping, bloating
- Constipation
- Palpitations (feeling your heart beat irregularly)
- Passing large amounts of urine or feeling very thirsty most of the time
- Fainting due to low blood pressure
- Abnormal psychological behavior: depression, psychosis, delirium, confusion, or hallucinations.
Obviously, these symptoms have consequences. One important symptom is that you may end up so confused or "altered mentally" that you won't be able to tell anyone that you've ingested excess salt! They'll find, within hours, that your Sodium is way high and your potassium is very low. But, by the time they get back that report, you may already have changes on your EKG (electrocadiogram). The changes in your heart's electrical waves may already be so changed that you could be considered a candidate for a pacemaker. But, even before that is considered, you could end up "tubed" (a tube down your throat) and on a "vent" (ventilator). From being on a ventilator, there are risks to your vocal cords, so you might end up with a raspy voice for months. If the tube down your throat rubbed your vocal "folds", it can cause a node on the vocal cords. The node can be removed with surgery-- but that doesn't guarantee your voice will ever return to normal.
The biggest thing to remember is almost everything we put into our bodies has the potential of disrupting the normal state of electrolytes, such as sodium and potassium. Any substance that makes one vomit or have diarrhea changes those electrolytes. Rather than incur thousands of dollars in hospital bills or ICU bills (around $30,000 dollars for 3 to 4 days!), why not get help for your inclination or desire to vomit. Medical help and counseling can offer you alternatives to abusing your body.
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